Richard Chorley - Education and Career

Education and Career

  • 1946-48 Lieutenant, Royal Engineers
  • 1951 BA (Hons) Oxford University
  • 1951-52 Fulbright and Smith-Mundt Scholarships to Department of Geology, Columbia University, New York
  • 1952-54 Instructor in Geography, Columbia University, New York
  • 1954 MA Oxford University
  • 1954-57 Instructor in Geology, Brown University, Providence, USA
  • 1958 Demonstrator in Geography, Cambridge University
  • 1962 Lecturer in Geography, Cambridge University
  • 1963-78 Co-Director, Madingley Geography Conferences
  • 1964 Appointed British representative to the Commission on Quantitative Techniques of the International Geographical Union. Nominated Chairman 1968
  • 1968 Appointed Chairman of the Committee on the Role of Models and Quantitative techniques in Geographical Teaching of the Geographical Association
  • 1970-1975 Appointed Secretary of the Faculty Board of Geography and Geology, Cambridge University
  • 1970 Appointed Reader in Geography, Cambridge University
  • 1972 Appointed Deputy Head of the Department of Geography, Cambridge University, for the Lent and Michaelmas terms.
  • 1973 Appointed member of the Board of Graduate Studies
  • 1974 Appointed to an ad hominem Chair in Geography, Cambridge University
  • 1984-89 Appointed Head of the Department of Geography, Cambridge University
  • 1984-89 and 1990 – Elected Chairman, Development Studies Committee
  • 1990 Elected Vice-Master, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University

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